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1985 - First National League pitcher to strike out 200+ in first two seasons (Dwight Goodin).

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1985 - Hanspeter Beck of South Australia finishes a 3,875-mile, 51-day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle.

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1985 - Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists.

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1985 - Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of the US.

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1986 - Birth of Robert Clark, Canadian actor.

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1986 - Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea), dies at age 76.

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1986 - In Edmond, Oklahoma, United States Postal Service employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers before committing suicide.

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1986 - Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon - Green Hornet), dies at age 71.

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1986 - Death of Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright (born 1923).

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1987 - Birth of Catalina Ponor; Romanian gymnast.

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